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"Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle dixie".
"When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns".

Greetings:
I just found the site!! I purchased an Uberti Walker from a pard over on the firing line forum, seems he loaded it up and only managed a couple misfires, he decided that the BP guns weren't for him! So I basically got an "unfired" Uberti and starter kit for a pretty good deal. I have the R and D conversion cylinder and it's really a kick to shoot it with my .45 cal.....Henry; using the same cartridge. I'll try and post some pics of the pair soon.
Oh and please add me to the list!

Depends on brand. Im using #10 cci. However i am having some major problems with pieces falling in the works. Seems as though maybe only 1 out of 6 shots lately that will shoot ok. So im going to be changing nipples to treso. Hopefully that will solve some of the problems.

Is this the same gun we're all talking about in this thread? The big 9" one?

I've already bought and built 6 of these kits, very nice and fun to work on. The building time depends on the finish you want. The longest being the polishing of the brass triggerguard. It's really raw material directly coming out of the mold. The steel only needs some polishing and blueing. Count at least 10 hours work to have one ready to shoot.

Depends on brand. Im using #10 cci. However i am having some major problems with pieces falling in the works. Seems as though maybe only 1 out of 6 shots lately that will shoot ok. So im going to be changing nipples to treso. Hopefully that will solve some of the problems.

#10's work the best for me, also. Haven't tried nor seen remingtons around here.

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Blessed are the left-handed, for they shall inherit the earth.

I finished off my Uberti WALKER kit a few days ago using the antique process I found on the CAS City forums and it came out real nice and old looking.
Shot it for the first time yesterday and yee-hah, great big boom and a very impressive cloud of smoke! Accurate too.
Steve

Since it was the first time I had built a kit like this I went pretty slow to avoid screwing it up . I probably have somewhere around 19-20 hours in it in all. If I build another one I could probably do it alot faster.
It turned out to be a very worth while project, I learned quite a bit. Next year I might build another and finish it like new.
Steve

I have on occasion ordered several things from Dixie, and had one or more of them backordered. Sometimes it took a month or more, but the items always arrived. My experience with the company goes back to the late 1940's and I never had a problem that wasn't resolved.

While a number of folks on this forum are Walker-Happy I'm sure at Dixie they were a relatively slow mover among other cap & ball revolvers and kits, and then they were were caught off guard when the interest picked up.

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